I am not an adventurous eater and have a problem with squishy food. That includes mushrooms. I love the flavor but not the squish factor so I always chop them up small. Here’s what I cooked this week:
Chicken & mushrooms with steamed carrots + cucumber slices
No knead whole wheat bread
Chicken stock
Dark chocolate fudge/walnut brownies
Vegetable fried rice with Asian salad
Tortillas
Custard pudding
Chicken & spinach skillet pasta with steamed yellow beets
Lemon blueberry loaf cake
Sweet & sour cabbage soup
Taco casserole the lots of tomatoes and shredded iceberg lettuce
Dark chocolate dipped coconut macaroons
We love beets! Whenever I make borscht, my husband always says, “You can’t beet soup!” 😀
I love ❤️ love ❤️ love ❤️ this easy and healthy dinner. It’s a lot of vegetables but there is never one bite left when I make my sheet pan chicken and veggies. There are so many health benefits from this colorful variety of vegetables but you can use some of mine and add your own favorites. I used to put the chicken and veggies all on a bare pan but the chicken made a big hard-to-clean mess so now I put the chicken only on parchment paper. (the veggies will brown better on a bare pan).
I cut a strip of foil into about 15 by 5 inches and crumple it to shape into a holder for a strip of parchment paper (about 10 by 4). Place them at the narrow end of the pan and this keeps the chicken juices contained. See below…
Stirring the vegetables is key so they won’t stick. Instead of setting my timer for 25 minutes, I set it for 10 minutes, remove the pan to stir all the veggies, put it back and set the timer for another 10 minutes. I stir a second time and set the timer for the last 5 minutes. By cutting the chicken into two pieces, this dinner is ready to serve as soon as it’s done.Since I’m cooking every day, I find myself looking for easier and faster ways to make a healthy meal and I make this one often because there’s not much to do once it’s in the oven. (more time to decide on what’s for dessert – today it’s peanut butter cookies, those easy ones made without flour 😋) I digressed. Back to my easy, healthy and so delicious sheet pan chicken dinner. Click here for the recipe. – jenny jones
